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Green Smoothie Collateral Damage, and Emma graduates high school

July 1, 2013

Emma’s Collage

Congratulations to my daughter, Emma Pay, who just graduated high school. This 4′ photo collage, that will hang in our house, and a giant party were her graduation presents. At last-minute, Emma opted out of a soccer scholarship in Iowa and instead chose an academic scholarship at SUU just three hours south of here. I am so proud of her!

That night I threw an epic party for the entire Senior class at my friend Drew’s house. His basement is a dance club and I hired a deejay. Fire pit in the backyard, big screen dance video games going upstairs: Matthew made hundreds of smoothies all night (not the green kind) and the kids danced till late with glow stick necklaces and bracelets and celebrated their heads off.

Before the party, Drew texted me this photo and said his $5,000 beautiful new Corian had broken in his kitchen. All because he took a bag of frozen fruit out of his freezer, and banged it on the counter to make a green smoothie.

I texted back,

“Stupid green smoothies! They wreck everything! Just eat Doritos!”

Learn the easy way instead of the hard way like Drew: don’t bang frozen fruit on your counter! You can freeze chunks of fruit individually on cookie trays, then put them into baggies. That way they don’t freeze in giant clumps.

(And, congrats Maeser Prep grads!)

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About Robyn

Robyn Openshaw is the author or editor of 14 titles, including the bestselling book The Green Smoothies Diet, the children's book, The Adventures of Junk Food Dude, and the course 12 Steps to Whole Foods. She’s passionate about overthrowing the Standard American Diet by teaching people to eat more whole foods easily, inexpensively, and deliciously. She’s the mom of 4 competitive athletes as well as a runner, cyclist, skier, and competitive tennis player. She travels all over the world speaking to sold-out audiences and studying non-toxic cancer treatment for her next project.

Congrats to Emma. My daughter is going to SUU this fall also. She will be happy to know she won’t be the only one with a blend tech in her suitcase and a mom praying that she is doing her green smoothies at school.

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